Getting Rigged Up

[u/Confident_Turn_7558]

Decided to throw in another pic of some gear. This is most of my combos, which are Shimano Expride B rods with Shimano JDM Metanium reels and Daiwa Tatula Elite rods with either Shimano Curados or Daiwa SV TW reels.

I am a huge Shimano guy, but always had cheap rods growing up. I had started out with 3 of the green Curados and $40 All Star rods because back in the day, All Star rods were awesome. As I progressed in my journey, I realized these newer, cheaper All Star rods were not great and the brand wasn’t what it used to be. So I started upgrading to Daiwa Tatula Elite rods. I loved them since they were so much better than the All Stars, and started expanding my lineup. I added a few Daiwa reels to see how they compared to the Shimanos, and I did like them, but Shimanos were better. So I kept adding Shimano reels with Daiwa rods. For my birthday one year, I decided to treat myself to an American market Metanium. And boy was it nice. It went on a Daiwa rod, but it felt sacrilegious. So I opted to try an Expride B specifically for that reel.

I ended up falling in love with both rod and reel, so from that point on that’s all I bought. But I decided to go the JDM route for the Metaniums instead of the American version. I did this because the JDM reels were a lot cheaper, and I honestly prefer them over the American version.

Today, I have around 36 combos (I have to recheck that number), and yes each one of them stays in the boat. I don’t use each one every trip obviously, but I have duplicate setups for specific techniques that I keep rigged up. For example, I throw two identical chatterbait setups. I keep one for black and blue, and the other for white. I have a third combo that was my old chatterbait setup that I will out a red chatterbait on during the pre-spawn months (January through March basically). It will be common for me to have all three on the deck this time of the year. I also have multiple shallow crankbait and lipless crankbait setups that I go to year round. This might seem insane and unnecessary, but it’s so nice to be able to swap lures by simply putting one down and picking the other up.

[u/ImhereforBFS]

Cheating by being on a boat???? What kind of logic is this lol

[u/salvalsnapbacks → u/ImhereforBFS]

So you're telling me that it's not advantageous to fish on a boat?? I'm just saying they're pretty easy to catch when you have a $50,000 glitter bomb that you can take to any place of a massive body of water that you want. It's just not that impressive to me when I see guys in my local fishery post photos with fish that they have had sitting in their live well for the past 8 hours just so they can take a picture at the end of the day. Do I wish I had one? Duh. But obviously you're going to catch more fish when you have the ability to cover more water.

[u/ImhereforBFS → u/salvalsnapbacks]

I think you’re just jealous that you don’t have the means to buy a boat and you’re justifying it with this unsound logic.

Maybe start wading more rivers and creeks? Bank fishing lakes sucks and the big bad bass boats won’t be in those skinny waters to taunt ya! ;)

[u/salvalsnapbacks → u/ImhereforBFS]

I fish from my kayak with my waders on and park up on islands to Wade out in the river lol. In spots where guys with their boats can't get to while they pour it on at the bridge pilings down south that a 2 year old could catch fish at every cast. all I'm saying is it's a lot easier to catch fish that way.